I love taking pictures of sunsets, and on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the sky was clear enough to give us some good ones. I never expected this would be the case, considering it was supposed to be cloudy and raining the whole time.

In northern parts of Alaska, the sun never really sets in the summer (and it’s dark almost all winter). But in the southern part where we were, the sun goes down, it just never gets totally dark. I was told they go a few months without seeing any stars – even if it’s clear it just doesn’t get dark enough to see them. Same thing with the northern lights, which is why you can only see them in the fall and winter. The sun sets just like it does in the east, the only difference is that you can go outside at midnight and still see everything.

On Tuesday night the sky was really unique in that it sort of created an orange and pink glow 360 degrees around us. The sky itself wasn’t very dramatic, but the lighting it created around the boat was awesome. On Wednesday there was a bright sunset that lasted for a long time with some really cool clouds surrounding it. I thought it would be good to put a few of these pictures together in one place.